Leaked: Photo of the new Pioneer CDJ-2000 Nexus

This morning we’ve spotted the first photos of the brand new Pioneer player that was teased last week (see the full teaser video below with carefully blurred out products). While not finally confirmed from Pioneer (the video promised a launch date of September 6th), the photos cropped up on our Facebook news-feed, seemingly sourced from a Korean product page for the new units. Click here to expand the photo, so you can see the shot in its full, mediocre resolution.

The Korean product page even names the unit as the CDJ-2000NXS – an expected alignment of Pioneer’s product line to bring the DJM-900 Nexus a set of players – but any non-physical details will likely not emerge until Thursday. Immediate differences on the unit itself that our team has spotted include:

Five source buttons instead of the normal four – this likely will be Pioneer’s new wireless Rekordbox loading system

Two silver buttons above of the pitch slider – we’ve heard in the past unsubstantiated rumors of Pioneer developing Sync – could this be it?

And anyone who wants to comment….go take 4 samples and throw them on in a loop and TELL ME THAT CRAP ISN’T EASY.

miljaardedjuu

I am getting bored with pioneer changing every one and a half year *upgrading* their equipment. As a rental company we are now forced to sell ‘older’ stuff and buy new just even before we got some profit of it. i tought with the 2000 every upgrade would be in software? the only upgrades that were usefull was to get the bugs out of the equipment .
if we have to rent extra 2000’s we have to spend a lot of time to check if every 2000 has the same firmware and off course we have to upgrade them. . and even then it doesn’t work properly. We had shit this weekend again with the network connections. it looks like we have to hire IT specialists instead of sound engineers to set up a proper dj booth. now there is another model of cd player and all trouble will start again…

So when you have 200 DJs trying to get the same spot but you are the only one who doesn’t use SYNC… do you think you deserve the spot because you actually have more skill? What about turntables vs CDJs or Ableton? These kind of tools only make it easier and easier for the next wannabe to think he/she is a great dj. Strip away all the DJ ASSISTANCE tools and they would fall on their face.

Tim

If you’re fighting against 200 DJs to get a spot, I’d say that you’re going to be judged on your music over your mixes.

Dave

only have one good hand that works right and love to mix music? leaf it to the real dj please
can’t wait to get a set and will send you my mix

Tim

The sync button does so much more, like provide better synchronisation for fx which would allow smoother transitions between genres of different tempos. It can also be used creatively, but of course you wouldn’t understand that as you think djing is nothing more than beatmatching.

So you are saying sync works the effects quantization too? How can effects be out of sync anyway? You set the parameters and it responds to the audio output. Does that also apply to the auto BPM function as well?

Tim

Sync does work control the effects quantization, yes. It does work with auto bpm, however it will work best with the tempo set manually in the master clock.